Things Got Wild

“What did the Senate majority fight for?” AOC said, gesticulating wildly and even slamming her hands down on the podium from which she spoke. “One of the largest corporate bailouts with as few strings as possible in American history.”

“Shameful. The greed of that fight is wrong for crumbs for our families,” she concluded.

The display was reminiscent of one of those inflatable air dancers placed outside car dealerships to entice customers.

Rep. @AOC: “What did the Senate majority fight for? One of the largest corporate bailouts with as few strings as possible in American history. Shameful!” pic.twitter.com/oLJJu6wUlG

Note the contents of that tweet. They are the same arguments she is making in her wild rant above.

“The option that we have is to either let them suffer with nothing or to allow this greed and billions of dollars, which will be leveraged into trillions of dollars to contribute to the largest income inequality gap in our future,” she argued.

“There should be shame about what was fought for in this bill and the choices that we have to make.”

Who is ‘suffering with nothing’ as AOC states? The illegals she mentioned in her tweet.

Not The Only Lunatic aoc coronavirus

Ocasio-Cortez wasn’t the only out-of-control Democrat on the House floor Friday morning.

Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) had her own meltdown as she ran out of time making an emotional speech about how medical professionals will “see darkness,” complete with her own fist-pounding, screeching, and accompanying pink latex gloves.

“I rise before you adorning these latex gloves not for personal attention, not for personal attention, but to encourage you to take this disease seriously,” she announced. “I rise for every American who is scared right now.”

Noble, sure, but what does that have to do with debating a relief package for the American economy?

When Stevens ran out of time, things really got crazy …

Rep. Haley Stevens of Michigan shouts through the gavel during House debate on the coronavirus relief bill:

About the AuthorRusty Weiss

Rusty Weiss is a freelance journalist focusing on the conservative movement and its political agenda. He has been writing conservatively charged articles for several years in the upstate New York area, and his writings have appeared in the Daily Caller, American Thinker, FoxNews.com, Big Government, the Times Union, and the Troy Record. He is also Editor of one of the top conservative blogs of 2012, the Mental Recession.